Crysis 10 Years On: Why It's Still Melting The Most Powerful Gaming PCs

Crysis is one of Alex's favourite games. It's a tech showcase built like no other - and in many ways, it still holds up today. Sit back as we take you through the game's key rendering features, how it's still state-of-the-art and why it's so demanding - even on today's hardware. Sub-60fps on a Core i7 8700K? You betcha...
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[@kasperdahlin6675]

The phrase “but can it run crysis” will never die

[@KimboKG14]

and it never will as explained in the video, based on the engines design you need a clocking rate higher than 6ghz, that shit is just not gonna happen.

[@DHTGK]

you need a intel i20

[@shadowreaper5413]

But can it run Metro Exodus is the new crysis meme.

[@KimboKG14]

@@shadowreaper5413 no its not! Y don't people understand? Crysis needs a 8ghz single thread CPU wich is impossible but if code isn't multithreaded multiple CPU cores won't help

[@andregon4366]

"Does it run on the Switch?" is the new meme

[@IrishCarBomb77]

Ever been on a beach at night? Those shadows are dead on.

[@Frasht]

The likes :O

[@user-mm4nd4gp8p]

3

[@AfroSnackey]

ikr? there's not enough light for ambient occlusion at night!

[@TheOracle535]

They should update the game, adding ray tracing just as a final f u to gaming pcs.

[@wktryj]

Oracle that's a great idea, that way it can run at a solid 10 fps

[@sirlordofderp]

My rtx2080ti has filed a restraining order against you.

[@abdur1300]

Crysis no need ray tracing, it will decrease fps for the sake of shadow lights

[@MaxC_1]

@@GameDevMadeEasy lol you just predicted the opposite of the future. Crytek is now Neon Noir.

[@GameDevMadeEasy]

@@MaxC_1 Well it was half right and wrong. When I was talking about Raytracing, I was talking about taking advantage of the RTX line of cards. It was also built with SVOGI, so that was also correct. But because I said, no raytracing support, I was indeed wrong there.

[@pineconeeagleman6101]

EA released a finished game? *only 2009 kids will remember this*

[@EximiusDux]

Kids. I bet most people were 20+ in age while playing Crysis.

[@papastalin1543]

@@EximiusDux I was 9 year old back then , as I m 19 year old now

[@EximiusDux]

Yeah sorry about that. i was tired when i wrote that. There is indeed the possibility that some parents had highly expensive computers and let way too Young kids play these games.

[@tacokiller420]

@@EximiusDux imagine thinking ratings mean anything lul

[@EximiusDux]

@@tacokiller420 what are you refering to ?

[@likeclockwork6473]

The game that made me unimpressed with new graphics for an entire decade

[@SilasSKnott]

Better than Mass Effect Andromeda...

[@Noobilicious32]

Ya, you're an idiot.

[@jinsk8r]

Bottlenecking because of rasterization. Realtime ray tracing will change it.

[@basshead.]

+TrueGamerOpinion Mass Effect 1 facial details and animations are better.

[@squirreldemon3506]

That 1865 game had really good graphics. Too bad the gameplay was one of the worst

[@jonoghue]

what amazes me is that this game, from a time when computer monitors were square, natively supports ultrawide displays when some recent games like fallout 4 can't even do it without modding.

[@igorthelight]

Because Crytek was a techgeek company, unlike Bethesda, who uses one engine with small tweaks for more than ten years (google "Fallout 4 engine")

[@Klaeyy]

Yeah, crytek really was (is?) a company filled to the brink with tech-enthusiastic nerds. They are really talented at producing good cutting-edge engines, which was the reason for crysis 1 being.. crysis 1. They always suffered from it too though. Because people acted like their games aren't "games" but glorified and playable techdemos and benchmarks. Which might be true to a certain extend, but them opting for the "license-model" instead of making their own games was their downfall. Even if their games weren't the best "games" they still carried the engine, it's reputation for looking dang beautiful and its general popularity.

[@OriginalCatfish42]

Amen

[@DLBBALL]

average Eastern- European communist Copy pasting comments intensifies

[@HistoryandReviews]

@@ADreamPC use a controller, be a man

[@cembanditx1]

Crysis VR would be interesting. Could heat a small Russian village with the pc that could run it.

[@3Rayfire]

In winter.

[@WellBeSerious12]

@Brad Viviviyal _Some men just want to watch the world burn._

[@matteopiscitello1606]

I mean, if you wanted to burn your face off, sure...

[@vladen14]

When you can still use a 11 year old game as a benchmark for today you know it's intense

[@bubbag3332]

well by todays standard its unoptimized, meaning it hardly uses the cpu, and that the main problem

[@goatgod2009]

Remember the joke that a NASA supercomputer was able to run Crysis on max settings for 10 minutes before a full system crash?

[@foreignbag8861]

You really think thats a joke?

[@caprisun7531]

@@foreignbag8861 ikr it wouldn't even last 2 minutes

[@SnakeEngine]

@@foreignbag8861 My laptop runs Crysis better than Unity games.

[@Web720]

@@SnakeEngine yeah at lowest settings.

[@cygniomega8322]

@@foreignbag8861 lol.. Thats a joke..

[@WayStedYou]

The water is pretty crazy for 10 years ago.

[@ArchieMedesx]

have you seen the specs of the pc. made my day :D pc vs one X youre funny

[@nicolasmartinez4337]

ArchieMedesx what

[@dio4296]

ArchieMedesx Huh?!?

[@Tobiemoss]

Archeage had great water, that was cryengine too.

[@postscriptum8142]

Water already looked great in games before Crysis.

[@Jun-fm1kp]

Oh lord, with the remaster, it’s gonna be another 10 years to run that, see y’all in 2030

[@ThiaGamesBR]

Actually, the remaster will bring multicore to the game, also update the engine to new and better optimized standards, so it's a win-win...

[@wumi7313]

@@ThiaGamesBR what is good about multicore

[@wumi7313]

@@michalthekind ok thanks

[@TheGreatMcPain]

@@michalthekind *Cries in 4 core i5*

[@kevinragsdale6256]

Doubt it, but haha (not). Its gonna be on switch too, just another shitty remaster of a mediocre game to cash in on nostalgia

[@larthejust]

I attempted to run Crysis on my gaming rig. Two minutes later my PC filed a restraining order.

[@mushfek]

HEAR HEAR! omg that moment when :O

[@danishdhanshe1555]

Guess your PC found itself in a 'crysis'

[@estudiordl]

Bro, do you forget to ask nicely before introduce it in? Shame!

[@briw3385]

So lame

[@ryancbarrett96]

That's what I call a domestic....crysis. I'll see myself out.

[@hardworkerstudio]

10 years later still looks better than pubg with maximum settings

[@Heretbg]

Lol @ pubg being a benchmark

[@YoshinkanSword2]

Better than mass effect andromeda lol

[@_E_B_]

@@YoshinkanSword2 Everything is better than andromeda. Lego star wars on the 360 is better than andromeda. I'm a hard core mass effect fan. Andromeda is trash...

[@Nebujin383]

*when games were made in germany, before crytek betrayed its roots*

[@pierreo33]

Rachan Neamprasert PUBG isn't aiming at graphics...

[@SilkMilkJilk]

I love it when games include graphic options that are nearly impossible to run at release. adds nice replay value years later.

[@HackNSlacker]

This is me because I have a very crappy PC back then and now I am replaying all the games in high settings. It feels like playing a new game.

[@eclipsez0r]

Problem is I waited years before first playing it. Fps for the win

[@bobmarl6722]

Back in the days where their was a difference between medium and ultra, sure. Today, low and ultra look 99% the same, just with shittier framerates.

[@eclipsez0r]

Bob Marl Consoles

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is what "ultra" was meant for. Graphics just barely better than high, but with a performance hit, that it would take 2 years and a grand to build a system that could run it on commonly used resolutions. For Crysis that meant a GTX 480 or GTX 285 SLI and anything Core 2 or late on 4+ GHz to get it running on 1680x1050 with 4xMSAA. The fastest card at release (8800 Ultra) in SLI had a hard time hitting stable 40 fps on 1600x1200 with 4xMSAA on max settings. The times when you had to make a complete upgrade because 2-3 years down the line your old CPU was to weak to run new games and when graphics cards had a release cycle of 6 months.

[@McFlyCollectibles]

Who’s here because of the just announced remastered version?

[@wumi7313]

YEEET

[@Neoquaker1]

Remastered version... ARE THEY CRAZY? What can handle that

[@Cedrinate]

ME

[@cMARVEL360]

I am! And I just noticed he drowned that damn tortoise! LMFAO! 🧐'Mmmm you can pick up many objects in the game and throw them' 🧐 💪😇'Picks up Poorest land dwelling creature with a hollow rock strapped to it, and tosses it in to the ocean' 💪😈..... Walks off nonchalantly 💪😇 🦶🦶

[@aito6526]

i think me lol

[@wheatking69]

1:14 "...and dream up what a modern-day Crysis might even look like." Boy have I got some news for you ;)

[@oldm9228]

Boy have I got some news for YOU ;)

[@Power5]

The most astounding thing, looking back for me, is that this was published by EA... Talk about a fall from the top.

[@Kasper0822]

It didn't make a lot of money and now Crytek is bankrupt. Wouldn't call that 'the top'. Still, better to go out of business for your ambition than ruining everything you had because of greed.

[@tengkualiff]

@@Kasper0822 given the choice i would still want the latter tho

[@datsunz152]

@@Kasper0822 Someone clearly doesn't understand the phrase "fall from the top"

[@Kasper0822]

@Idi Amin Seems like i made a mistake. They just sold most of their ip's and studios after going too broke to pay their wages properly.

[@SillyDillysTunes]

kasper0823 they failed simply because people couldn’t run the game well. It’s nothing shameful about what happened to crytek. What it shows is that people are simpletons and cannot see past what’s in their face. They were mad about what made the game great. However crytek has nothing to do with why EA fell from the top.

[@deyakson]

Me, as he is talking: "Mmmm yes, mmm, yes, I understand nothing."

[@TraveltheRedRoad]

*slow nods*

[@soybean6436]

*rubs chin* Aye...aye

[@migzwilliams2049]

LOOOL my sides! lol

[@notjustforme8857]

Uhhhhh aha, I get like 95% of it. Always had technology related magazines on the crapper ;-)

[@MyNameLeonIs]

Aha.. riiight

[@duck5336]

Crysis is the reason games graphics are lowered before release.

[@gullf1sk]

consoles are

[@TizzyT455]

@The DJ GamerArtist Channel TLDR: I've tested this and graphic seems to be as much part of the game play as the actual mechanics depending on the game. Back when I was in highschool (boy that was a long time ago), I did a project to see if graphics have an impact on gameplay/performance. I had a sony vaio with integrated graphics and a (at the time) moderately high spec'd gaming pc (besides graphics I tried to make both systems similar, both had P4 cpus and 4GB of ram). I had 6 friends (I know small sample size but thats all the friends I had) play a series of games both single player and multiplayer. First they would play on the bad pc and then on the higher end pc, everyone had a turn on each. The games were Doom 3, Halo CE, Need for speed. On the bad pc, they consecutively did worst in all three of those games. Most notable was halo multiplayer. A player could literally be pit against the same person and swapped mid game and the scores would essentially swap in favor of who ever was on the good pc. A couple months later I grabbed me a 6800GT to fit the vaio with and did a similar test but with fewer people, and performance was then more or less even. Sure graphics is game dependent as need for speed seem to be impacted the least but I would argue that graphics is very much a part of the game play experience.

[@digitalcg9268]

nah, consoles are

[@tengkuadam1399]

Sigh... I remember that blue and white boat. The strongest vehicle there ever was. Bullet proof, blast proof, and fire proof. AND not to mention it doesn't drain your suit energy if you were to stand on it while it was moving. The perfect stealth killer. Only problem was that you had to punch it in order for it to move, it's a PUNCH OPERATED VEHICLE!

[@Mike604]

When developers focused on making the BEST game ever, and not the BEST money making game.

[@EliDjahn]

It was a moneymaker

[@NicholasBrakespear]

Um... it was published by EA...

[@RP944]

@@NicholasBrakespear well, it turns out for your information that EA was a good company long before the dlc shit wave came around.

[@thegreatballplayer1]

MikeM those were the days my friend. Reminds me of halo 3

[@ravik007ggn]

How much work do you do pro bono? Don't answer, I know what you shall know. Now, you expect developers to live off of thin air?

[@cgavin1]

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark.

[@reanimationxp]

lol.. basically the game version of this same thing, and i'm not sad to admit i do it

[@Marconius17]

Patrick? Is something wrong? You’re sweating ...

[@bizmonkey007]

Brilliant reference

[@deckz901]

Nice. Very impressive. Let's see Paul Allen's game.

[@em7147]

You like Huey Lewis and the News?

[@TekkenBones]

The best element of Crysis 1's jungle levels is the sheer scale and immersion of the jungle it's self....it is the 100% polar opposite of a corridor shooter. You can replay the same mission hundreds of times and get a different experience because the world is so interactive and there are no set paths to follow to get from point A to point B....... That is VERY RARE in a video game.... Hell even something like GTA 5, with those missions you still have to do it the "right" way... whereas with Crysis 1, you can do some crazy shit and still complete the mission... some of those levels literally feel like you are alone in a jungle.

[@typie34]

Exactly. Crysis is like a semi Open-World game with huge missin maps and tons of paths and options to complete it, and it never restricts you how to do it, you always have the choice

[@Syncopia]

I remember doing then 3rd level where you have to cross the bridge like 4 different ways!

[@TheGreatMcPain]

In addition to the jungle levels I also like how the vegetation reacts to explosions and gunfire.

[@lobiankk77]

That part at night, you had to cross the entire map to get to the VTOL.

[@SSaNNEE100]

I played few weeks ago GTA V singleplayer once again and I was so done with it. Its so damn restrictive.. do anything outside the way developers intended and BANG mission failed, we'l get em next tiem

[@SmartrMelons]

Cry Engine has always been my favorite. From Crysis to Far Cry(s). Unreal, and Frostbite are good for game mechanics, but the details that Cry Eng. provided was phenom.

[@aaadj2744]

Unreal, Cry Engine, Renderware and Source Engine are my favourite as well

[@Syncopia]

It honestly made me a cryengine fanboy. Too bad nothing quite spectacular ever happened in cryengine or Crysis afterwards.

[@bad_chewy6092]

Far Cry 2* and forward uses Dunia

[@danielmattar2518]

Snowdrop has potential and I think it's getting a next gen revamp

[@Inriri]

Still the most beautiful Korean throwing simulator

[@sebastiandurando2493]

lol, Crysis is THE American game, you get to kill aliens and communists alike.

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

Amen brother. Grab the XM2014 and shoot 'em som'bitches.

[@jesuswasasausage9262]

Sebastian Durando that isn’t made by Americans.

[@fanoboyo4559]

Sebastian Durando It's made by the Germans, Crytek is the developer.

[@BlazeABD]

Fano Boyo Turkish actually just based in Germany

[@babblebabble]

3-4 years ago everyone was going crazy over so-called "next-gen graphics".And I was like "It was already in 2007 man".

[@cosmosofinfinity]

Just 3 years after Half-life 2... If only PC gaming kept making such dimensional leaps like that every 3 years since then.

[@charliebrown8608]

PC gaming kept making such leaps, but not only in graphics but in Performance as an example.

[@xionpentagast]

The consoles killed the progression of pc

[@bookshelffury]

Piracy killed pc only games

[@ErnestJay88]

Why Crysis really matters back then ? Back when Crysis was released, the most powerful GPU on the market is Geforce 8800 ULTRA, even that GPU can't run Crysis on 1980 x 1200 (yeah, 16:10 aspect is common back then) at steady 60 Fps, you need 2 8800 Ultra in SLI to reach 60 Fps. Imagine if today there is a game that need 2 RTX 2080 Ti on NVLink SLI to reach stable 60 Fps on 2560 x 1440 resolution, 4K ? don't even think to play "that game" unless you're okay with 30-40 Fps, Medium detail.

[@josephjuanaliagavalenzuela2345]

Today that will be just considered laziness or pure spaghetti code.. which in most cases is, I stop here 'case the thread is more deep/complicated than this.

[@info0]

that's what you get with Crysis 1 tho on single 2080Ti you can have a drop to sub par 40 fps on some occasions, but it's not GPU fault, but original Crysis limitation known as CPU bottlenecking and using only 1 core (you can even see it in video above).

[@davidryanbaxter8094]

have you played the new ff on windows? it uses more then my 8gbs on my rtx 2080 on 4k and 2k resolutions with max settings. There are already games that need this now

[@jrus690]

My current 24" screen I bought in 2006-07 period and uses that 1920 x 1200 resolution. I prefer that older PC widescreen aspect ratio over the current standard. I will be slightly sad when this screen fails. Forget Crysis Remastered, Flight Simulator 2020 might become the new question mark and universal benchmark for gamers.

[@Lishtenbird]

something something Microsoft Flightsim 2020

[@BLKBRDSR71]

Maximum speed... Maximum armor... Maximum strength... Maximum hard-on. Um... No no, I don't need that yet. Now where's that off button.

[@idontfeelsogood2063]

r/CommentsYouCanHear This game made such an impression on me years ago, that to this day I have tears in my eyes hearing that music theme looking at that sunrise 😥

[@hhnoyeet342]

Cringe

[@ryancbarrett96]

That sounds like it should be a line from Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. Fuck yeah!

[@mii3039]

@@hhnoyeet342 r/whoooosh

[@AGamerPS3]

We need another game like Crysis, one that shoves the industry forward without worrying about who can run it. The bar needs to be set higher, much higher.

[@zonamaster4763]

i dont know modern graphics kinda look stale on me almost all of it i prefer artistic style over overrealism anyday

[@AGamerPS3]

It's not about the visual art style but rather how detailed that art style is. Imagine Jak and Daxter but maxed out and then some x100.

[@brunos6599]

The bar is being set to the lowest common denominator because companies want money so more people buy it while hiring leftists that don`t believe in money but are great with lowest common denominators.

[@zonamaster4763]

@@brunos6599 you only describe EA and its bullshit the gaming community as a whole hate the leftist and gayish stuff

[@thebigmoosy9706]

Just call James Cameron

[@yourvenparianen5390]

a game from 10 years ago...looks better than 70% of the games nowadays *cough* Fallout 76 *Cough*

[@AnArmoredMarch]

Yeah, but that's bethesda. They make fun games, not good ones lol

[@rayshaad78]

AnArmoredMarch but aren’t fun games good ?

[@AnArmoredMarch]

@@rayshaad78 fun games are fun, and are worth playing. I can't call any game where you can literally glitch up a mountain a good game though, nor should anyone else. Though part of the fun of games like skyrim is that they suck and you can break/glitch it out for shits and giggles

[@DB1Dragoon]

@@AnArmoredMarch I think I get what you mean, but to me the glitches in their games have pissed me off all the goddamn time and subtracted away fun, not add to it. Receiving the feeling of fun in a game is super subjective, so it can be separated from the fact of whether a game is good or not.

[@DutchmanDavid]

The ONLY thing that Crysis 1 could improve on is poly count. Seeing heads with weird edges is weird :p Oh, and multicore support would've been nice.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

I'm still playing it in 2020. It's timeless. No two games are the same.

[@sinnohen]

Came straight here after Crytek officially announced "Crysis Remastered." I'm excited to see what the DF team thinks of it, ESPECIALLY the switch port. Oooohhhh boy.

[@LennerPOPPADOPALIS89]

I was just wondering how it's gonna look on Switch.

[@saricubra2867]

@@LennerPOPPADOPALIS89 The Switch will melt itself

[@kenneth9452]

@@saricubra2867 The Switch version would look like Minecraft

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Whats even more concerning..... This was a DECADE ago?! WTF what happend???

[@shaolin95]

Consoles pretending to be as good as PCs happen and devs creating games that can run decent on those underpowered systems

[@YungPixel]

yup, consoles

[@jonathonspears7736]

Dirty console peasants ruin everything.

[@sasukekuniski1959]

@@jonathonspears7736 false

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Most gamers went "That's cool, but how much do I need to sink in to run this at highest settings?", heard the response and noped out. There were some that wanted to have the bleeding edge and damn the costs, but they were the minority. Most developers knew that releasing content that was locked behind the paywall of bleeding edge wouldn't pay for itself, much less fund future endeavors so didn't push it that hard. They kept up with the hardware.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Meanwhile if you use some nice older ATI/Nvidia Cards with certain drivers you can enjoy the game complete with no wheels being rendered in. Nice look back on Crysis, I got far too caught up playing through the game in 4k which looked absolutely brilliant for an 11 year old game.

[@Dictator93]

I remember this bug! I think it is one that is introduced in patch 1.21 (the game's last patch). So if you have a disc copy like I do, you can just install up to patch 1.20. 1.20 is a more pure crysis version actually... IMO. It does not have the "hit sound" :D You can turn that off though in 1.21 though with a console command thankfully! Thanks for the comment ! -Alex

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Dictator93: Nice information cheers man once again.

[@creepcatcher890]

Ya, ok fucktard!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Fuckk ps4: Right... Well arent you a pleasant little fellow ;D

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I wish I could figure out of to play Crysis in 4k on the Origin edition.

[@irvancrocs1753]

Old EA is one of the best gaming companies out there, they really encourage a lot of ambitious developers and creating so many memorable franchises like Crysis, Dead Space, Dragon Age Origins, BF Bad Company, NFS Shift/Hot Pursuit, Mirror's Edge, Skate, Mass Effect, Burnout, Rock Band, and etc. Unlike this current EA which is always a yearly routine to make at least one controversy in each year..

[@irvancrocs1753]

@My Friend Not only Mass Effect tho, NFS and Battlefield are also fucked up, and rest of them except Dragon Age are probably already being a dead franchise, everything thanks to EA..

[@aaadj2744]

Also BLACK, and Burnout Paradise as well (Criterion is in trouble now. RIP Renderware engine. One of the best graphical engine and 3D rendering design software system ever made. This engine had a potential to compete with another engine. Sadly this engine had been killed ever since the licenced of this engine had been owned by EA through Criterion Games, never forget)

[@ProfessorYana]

@@aaadj2744 And Command & Conquer! (RIP Westwood)

[@harbingerdawn]

EA had nothing to do with the first Mass Effect, it was developed and finished before they bought BioWare.

[@aaadj2744]

@HarbingerDawn Yeah, and then Mass Effect : Andromeda had been ruined

[@manishpandey5013]

Best year ever in FPS Gaming: 1. 2004: Half Life 2 + Doom + Far Cry + Painkiller 2. 2007: Bioshock + CoD MW + Crysis

[@DefinitelyNotMyRealName]

Manish Pandey yup

[@MaSeshield]

Imagine forgetting about halo 2, which is the reason Xbox live even succeeded

[@NR-iw4sp]

@@MaSeshield PC Gamers: 😐

[@Night_Rider83]

How have you forgotten Halo 2 and 3? The greatest shooters of all time.

[@Night_Rider83]

​@@MaSeshieldexactly!

[@TehMorbidAtheist]

Imagine the narrator repeating all of this to a girl on the first date.

[@ivanzaytsev4924]

@@Druze_Tito lol having background knowledge in computer science doesn't make you intelligent.

[@AbhinavKulshreshtha]

@@Druze_Tito It won't... I Tried it back in 2009.. And she was a hardcore gamer and smart programmer.

[@carlosdanger5379]

@@AbhinavKulshreshtha Kinda worked for me. Except it wasn't Crysis but any game we played together. I would break down the technical effects that were onscreen and she loved it. We are married now. :D

[@birddaddydetta]

@@carlosdanger5379 That's so wholesome and I'm so happy for you!

[@alejandrorivas4585]

@@carlosdanger5379 good stuff man

[@Einheit101]

Crysis tree damage system made my mind blow back then

[@sasukekuniski1959]

wtf is that.. look a poe tree

[@Milunnn]

yea man....i also remeber as a kid i was stunned by it...and when I saw this video, all the good old memories are coming back. Why do today's games look so bad, compared to a 11 year old game?

[@bichdao1808]

Still no game has that , only shiny graphics .

[@danielbeccar269]

Yes that was awesome. We lost that dedications to details, Im playing battlefield 5, and barely any object is affected when shooting, it is so unreaI I hate that, feel cheated.

[@davidgarrido8363]

@@ml_serenity He is complaining bc BFV is basically BF1 with a reskin, and BF1 wasn't really that good. He is complaining bc games nowadays are more focused in making and selling products the fastest way possible than actually take time, care and dedicstion to make unique games. They are playing it safe to gain extra bucks and it shows

[@dmkoslicki]

Rarely do I need to stop a KZbin video to look up so many words. Kudos to you for the expansive vocabulary (and the appropriate usage of the terms not distracting from the overall message)!

[@frankposterello1628]

That was literally the most detailed and obviously knowledgeable review I have ever seen about anything anywhere.

[@osamaFXX]

Gaming graphics: Before Crysis and after Crysis

[@markosporn8315]

Nice 👍👍👍

[@Gyrfalcon312]

A video on another channel told me the same thing. Something about the game's "ambient occlusion" technology making the old standard of polygon count and pixels, obsolete.

[@Intercore222]

To be honst ... still looks better than most of todays half-hearted published shit

[@houghwhite411]

But it's cluttered with things that you wouldn't notice And clever lies that convinces our eyes Such a beautiful game, um.. sorry, more like a tech demo than a game

[@Intercore222]

Crysis 1 was a very good shooter, not just a tech demo.

[@VeryMelonCB]

Yeah, if you're blind.

[@romaliop]

The first half of Crysis was a very good shooter. Then it turned to shit like every Crytek game does for some reason.

[@0pyrophosphate0]

That comes down to art direction at least as much as it comes down to technology.

[@esjihn]

I really appreciate the time you have taken to research everything and how articulate you are during your presentation. A+

[@Spoggi99YT]

Coming back to this video after the Crysis remastered release, it‘s sad to see how hyped Alex was for a potential remaster and what we actually got last week....

[@d3203]

Normal Games: U are a standard soldier but acts like a with a nanosuit Crysis : u have a nanosuit but die as fast as a korean

[@Krezmick]

you forgot to switch on maximum armor.

[@d3203]

Krezmick Trust me i didn't.

[@TomDeWeerdt1]

Then I'd advise practising some more lol. I played through it on 4/4 difficulty and it was doable (not double)** in terms of dying quickly.

[@pravkdey]

Delta difficulty represent

[@AbominableHuman]

git gud

[@Pipoy_99]

Man the graphics is insanely good for a 10 year old game wtf

[@sondre5527]

*11 years

[@VengFPV]

Actually it did, and people could run it. You just had to be one of the lucky bastards that managed to persuade his parents to lend you money for 2x 8800GTX's. ;-) It still didn't run great, but was more than playable.

[@VortechBand]

Games in those days were often run at 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 960/1024, so the GPU load wasn't *that* hard. And CPUs haven't really advanced all that much since 2007, in terms of raw single threaded performance (modern CPUs focus on multithreaded performance).

[@Strangething90]

honestly i played this game at high/very high on an 8800gt, sure it only got around 18-20fps, but the motion blur made it playable, and still my favourite single player fps.

[@VengFPV]

Yeah it was definitely playable at lower fps, you're right. I remember messing about with the level of motion blur a lot to compensate.

[@freedomofmotion]

Crysis made me a graphics snob. Any game that didn't have dynamic reactive plants and trees just made me sad. Is it so hard to push a damn bush out the way?

[@Misha-dr9rh]

@@areyoureadyheregoesnothing500 We don't talk about Just Cause 4.

[@s7v3nthign]

@@areyoureadyheregoesnothing500 That game is not allowed here

[@obama8mychickenz]

Misha600 why do people say that?

[@Misha-dr9rh]

@@obama8mychickenz JC4 was complete dogshit, it was a disappointment to the Just Cause series.

[@kaanerdem2822]

Lol i feel the same, any game whom called next gen game where the Bushes dont move around when interact i felt sad. Farcry 5 is the worst so far

[@stonesthrow420]

I have played the entire series 3 times over. Its amazing still. The weapons and technology and environments look very realistic, like something out of a James Cameron movie..the soundtrack is done by Hanz Zimmer, the storyline is bad-ass. The aliens are tough and scary at times. What more could you ask for?

[@TheRPGentleman]

11-year-old Crysis water vs

[@brunor.1127]

Atleast jc4 is fun Amiright?

[@TheRPGentleman]

@@brunor.1127 Yep. It is that.

[@ryanschindler923]

Just Cause 2 on pc has great physics based water that is leagues ahead of JC4's water. Yet another example of..."WTF happened to JC?!?!"

[@anazahmed509]

Um, your symbol is saying, that Just Cause 4 has more detailed water, than Crysis.

[@mkultrasoldier]

@@ryanschindler923 JC4 was so disappointing. It's pretty clear it wasn't ready to be released. Imagine how nice the water could have looked if they improved on the WaveWorks implementation in JC3

[@VKDante]

Crysis is still the best game I've ever played on a PC. It's very near and dear to me. I remember back in 2007 I bought a new PC just to play this game. Got my 8800 GTX to run this beast and thinking "Yup it was definitely worth it". I can play the first level thousands of times and never get board of the visuals or the interactivity. It's sad to see the direction it took with the sequels to reach the console audiences essentially killing the franchise in the process. Aside from the technical stuff, I still believe this is one of the best looking games on PC.

[@UmVtCg]

Nostalgic memberberies talking here, it's not that good.

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

@@UmVtCg no. It is. I just recently rebooted Crysis. It's still awesome. No two games are ever the same.

[@eenOphPro.]

Same here, back then i have to build a new rig just to be able to play it on medium with alot graphic and shader optimization mod...

[@Eunostos]

I am astonished that anyone could find the gameplay itself engaging to the point of being personally important. A core part of its reputation is the contrast between the (impractical at the time) technical prowess and how humdrum the moment-to-moment experience was. Along with the shit ending~

[@PascalB07]

i had a phenon II black 965 and a 9800GT with 4gb of ram on Xp and the final part on the ship was a nice pictures slideshow :P

[@jackoberto01]

I recently bought and tried it out and I was honestly impressed by not only the technical side but also the gameplay. I love the semi open levels wwith the suit abilties to go with it

[@Domzdream]

I appreciated this clip so much. Many thanks!! I'm myself a Game Artists, so watching this was great!

[@user-vi3tb3bw5t]

It isn't melting the most powerful PC's lol...but it still puts MANY games that came out years and years after to shame.

[@blingbling54321]

dude.. few days ago.. i was like restless lookong for a game.. years back i was playing crysis. went through like 20 youtube videos nothing amazed me. i wanna play something on my new pc.. finally im downloading crysis again

[@BanditLeader]

If it didn't melt pcs, the meme "but can it run crysis" wouldnt exist

[@eliray39]

@@BanditLeader Over used meme. I cringe every time I see it now.

[@BanditLeader]

@@eliray39 but can your cringe run crysis? Ecks dee

[@_Daio_]

Bandit Leader He didn't say that,but it isn't melting the most powerful PC's now...made me upgrade at the time and every rig after pissed it. PS.If crysis is melting your PC today then your PC is toaster and not "The Most Powerful Gaming PC".

[@mazharhussain1584]

Well the true way to appreciate how much Crysis was ahead of its time is to look at 11 years prior to 2007 i.e 1996. Compare Super Mario 64 to Crysis . And now compare Crysis to any modern game. Looking at games now it seems that technology definitely isn't moving as fast as it used to.

[@shizmoo5536]

Ever heard of diminishing returns?

[@matthewjackman8410]

Eh, I dunno man. Have you seen some of the amazing FPS VR demos? You can literally move every limb and appendage, and everything interacts. Yeah some games being made these days are overproduced illusion-fests pretending to look good with lens flare and water all over the damn screen, but it doesn't mean we aren't making leaps and bounds in tech. Just that morons buy stupid stuff.

[@jprice_]

ever heard of moores law? i guess it ain't working no more

[@AlejandroLZuvic]

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Half-Life 2 and Far Cry were released in 2004, and they were among the best looking games at that time. Crysis was released in 2007 and it instantly put any other game to shame. Fast forward 10 years and now we have better looking games... but not by THAT much.

[@Nerdule]

Well, yeah. Dennard scaling (The transistor engineering phenomenon that made Moore's-law transistor shrinking lead to equivalent doublings of performance) broke down around 2005-2007. Performance has been growing much more slowly ever since then, and that's mostly due to increased parallel processing; gains in simple serial performance have been limited. Even Moore's Law itself, phrased solely in terms of transistor count, has been decelerating over the last decade and is on the verge of guttering to a halt entirely. (Intel's last manufacturing process node took two and a half years; the upcoming one's taken three years so far and still isn't here yet; manufacturers all over the world are struggling with new EUV lithography processes, and the challenges of scaling are getting incredibly difficult.) Crysis was basically released at the very moment that technology stopped "moving that fast". It's not like we've reached the end of the road; there's lots of interesting future roads for improvements, even dramatic improvements, of hardware. But there will never again be a period of advancement like the differences between buying a PC in the 80s and a PC in the 90s and a PC in the 2000s. To see what I mean: In 2007, a top-of-the-line shit-hot $1000 3GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme 9650 had 4 cores (but no hyperthreading) and a single-threaded PassMark score of 1252. In 2017, the equivalent inflation-adjusted price would buy you a top-of-the-line shit-hot 2.9 GHz (but turbo up to 4.4 GHz) $1200 Intel Core i9 7920, with 12 cores (24, with hyperthreading) ... and a single-threaded score of 2435. That's less than a doubling of single-threaded performance, over *10 years* of development. Any improvement beyond that has come entirely from additional cores and developers getting better at breaking up their code into parallelizable chunks that make better use of multiple cores and the GPU. But not everything can be parallelized. For comparison, if you bought an equivalently-priced Intel desktop chip in 1997, you'd have a **0.26 GHz** Pentium II. In terms of single-threaded performance, that's more than ten times slower than the 2007 chip just from the clockspeed alone, *on top* of the Core 2 having 4 cores instead of one, **on top** of the simultaneous development in GPUs between 1997 and 2007.

[@ShahabSheikhzadeh]

You are insanely knowledgeable of graphics, visuals and game design and technology. Subscribed.

[@Mezcaline24]

12 years now, and i'm still impressed... Remember those early yotube videos with hundreds of barrels exploding ? Damn time flies...

[@Wieprzow]

So I was on second year of my land surveyor college studies and one professor actually told us that he uses CryEngine to make models of his measurements and that totally blew everyone of us away. "No need to buy 1 year, 5 grand license while there's equally powerful software for pennies" he said.

[@rexthesheep]

"Then people might've just turned down some of the texture settings instead of going online and complaining about how poorly the game was optimised." Oh Alex, people still do this today.

[@AKAMarco]

sheepytina Did you try Kingdom come deliverance? It was pretty much poorly optimised untill people complained and they released some patches.

[@alexisrenteria5880]

Yeet, that’s all true, but there are still definitely people who will complain about the game being poorly optimized, even if they don’t meet the recommended specs lol

[@TitaniousAnglesmith]

When I got the game, i couldn't beat. Not because it was hard, but because it kept crashing everytime I went to look at some grass!

[@evansyoung]

sheepytina Then you should rather refund people rather than asking them to turn down settings to run a stupidly optimized game on thier beast PCs instead of complaining

[@EpicBunty]

but can it run crysis ?

[@metaspherz]

I built a new state-of-the-art pc just to play Crysis! I never regretted it for an instant. And the pc doubled as a music production studio too! Win-win!

[@Danixxxxx]

The game that got me into PC gaming. Man it was so beautiful back then, I just HAD to learn about upgrading my PC...

[@georgel.6853]

Favorite shooter ever. SSVolumetric lighting: shafts, clouds, fast subsurface scattering, ssao, FFT - based ocean waves, caustics, chromatic aberration, refraction, even physically based sky... god bless Tiago, Martin, Carsten, Anton (CE3), and the tech team. It was a mmaster piece. ...please stop saying back scattering... transmisssion!!

[@Qsergio123]

I bought a pc just for this game 10 years ago most fun i ever had

[@bigboulder]

Crysis was one of the rare pc exclusive powerhouses. Despite all the saltyness from some pc gamers and so called console "fanboys" even to this day, i think most people who actually played it noticed, that it was game far ahead of its time. Sadly multimillion dollar budget exclusive games are only made for consoles to sell consoles these days.

[@Krystalmyth]

bigboulder Honestly all I saw was a boring shooter.

[@Sp00kyFox]

well the video doesn't showcase the gameplay but the graphics of the game. but regarding game design it was also a milestone in its own right.

[@rockgod2131]

It looked amazing, especially for the time. It wasn't, however, a good game. It's a 6/10 game noteworthy only for its sprawling level design and impressive visuals. I do think it's great they pushed the envelope but the game itself is far worse than some people seem to think.

[@Sp00kyFox]

I agree. I rather think the game is very underrated. most people seem to think that this game is just a pretty graphic demonstration while ignoring that this game in fact established standards regarding open world shooters. sadly since it was a PC exclusive first and demanded strong hardware, many people couldn't play it back then. which is why I think they talk it down retrospectively.

[@ytmB4HyU4kUq]

I remember when I played Crysis 1 for the first time. One word to describe it: Beautiful. I had bought it many years after it's release in 2007 and was immediately hooked upon playing it. It's hard to believe that the game was from 2007! Never would have guessed it if playing the game without knowing what the game was. I finished Crysis 1&2 and I'm now deciding when to play 3. I'm not in a rush to finish it because I know it's worth waiting for.

[@ThermaL-ty7bw]

70+ fps in 4K with my 2080ti , highest settings still the sweetest game in the business

[@bagelfromhell6164]

Good topic, interesting too

[@123doomdoom]

What generic comment

[@123doomdoom]

Ryan Gosling he has iq of 10

[@MaximumJoy]

Luke Taylor Alex is 100% Digital Foundry material

[@captainwedgie1783]

now you got me really trying to think of a bad topic that would be interesting

[@danielkelly1829]

Your mom's a good topic, interesting too

[@Isaac31415]

You guys are making me want to play it again

[@renej5774]

Question, so if we add ray-tracing to this game, could we then once again ask ”yea, but does it run crysis?”

[@nikitovitch5113]

Rene J I believe u need one of those computers that NASA owns to play this game with that extra tracing 🤣

[@shigeru51fifujiwan61]

Thank you for the video, Mr. Foundry. I've always been a huge nerd when it comes to video game graphics and the tech behind it. I never knew how forward thinking this game was in terms of tech. You say it will "melt" the most powerful gaming PCs. Some might say that it will rip and tear gaming PCs to shreds. (BTW, I did like what I heard.)

[@josh223]

Wish we could get games that would be modern equivilants to crysis

[@madfinntech]

Exactly!

[@madfinntech]

Hakan Well. I did.

[@BestofCalcioIT]

I finished it on hp compag cq60

[@josh223]

Hakan well yeah but today games are really good at being scaled back, if on ultra it stressed the highest end hardware but looked as comparitively gorgeous to games today as crysis did in 2007 i think itd be worth it. Plus you could always just turn some settings down and play at a slightly lower resolution, and on the cpu side as long as its well optimized for multithreading i think itd run fine on most modern pcs (4th gen i5 and forward). Before you say it i know all of this is really idealistic but having a game like that other than star citizen would be nice

[@Y0URGRANDMA]

All the pc exclusive publishers left are targeting the low end. I don't think it will ever be happening again unless nvidia/amd/intel decide to make pc exclusive that doesn't rely on console parity to promote top end hardware.

[@luciosergiocatilina1]

God the first time I downloaded that demo and ran it for the first time... It was simply jaw dropping, something I will truly never forget. I almost did not care about the poor performance, what was on screen justified any frame drop that could occur. From that moment on nothing ever looked the same.

[@TheAnit500]

As someone who played it 2 years after release. Completely agree, this game was a work of masterpiece.

[@Loundsify]

I ran it on a Pentium 4 with a 8600GT I could run medium to high settings. Woo

[@luciosergiocatilina1]

Back in those days I had a Core2Duo and a 8800GTS 320, well with this system I was able to push it almost to the maximum settings but only by playing at 1024x768 (yes, I had a shitty monitor) and even if the res was low the VRAM saturation was punctually kicking in, forcing me to restart the game to get 25-30 fps again (thanks to the motion blur it was still playable even at low framerates). I just reinstalled it a few days ago on a 6700K@4.6 and a oc'ed 1080Ti: 4K is still a no-go on certain scenarios, especially when tweaking the LOD and the shadow resolution, which is indeed the most resource-hungry setting, just by setting the shadows res at 8096 the game can even go down to 30 fps, so i sticked to 4096, which is a good compromise. So, with a system like mine the game is totally playable at 2k, maximum settings and AA4X without tweaking it further via CVARS, and i get most of the times 80-100FPS. By tweaking the shadows at 4096 (default is 1024) I get a very variable framerate and it does indeed go down to the fifties when the vegetation is very dense, proving that this game can make your hardware cry even in 2018. I should add that my 1080Ti is constantly under full load, bringing the temps to 62 degrees, and I have a Stryx OC! Really, even modern games don't push that much. One more thing: the Steam version does not have a 64 bit executable, so you need to find it on Internet and replace the bin32 folder with the bin64 folder. If you don't do that the game will stutter because at high resolutions it needs much more memory to be allocated. In my case, playing at 2k with various tweaks, the game takes up almost 4GB of video RAM with the 64 bit executable, remarkable for a 2007 game.

[@sevenfifteen]

What people tend to forget is that even in 2007 everything from 30 fps up was considered a very good framerate. The demo was mind blowing, but I couldn't play the game at release. My PC just wasn't strong enough. Imagine my experience, when I got a really good machine with an oc MSI GTX 460 a few years later (2010? 2011?), and it topped everything I saw in the demo. Crysis also was the first game that convinced me, that some shooters are worth to be played ;)

[@luciosergiocatilina1]

Agreed, especially on the last part. The gameplay mechanics still feel fresh today, and playing on Delta difficulty level really gives a challenge. No QTEs, no silly melee or chain attacks, lack of highlighted enemies beyond walls and obstacles, just pure and simple shooting at its best. Many gameplay (and technical) features we give for granted were there already. The only thing to do in order to enjoy the game is not exaggerating with the cloak feature, otherwise the game becomes extremely easy. Even if AI is often not particularly brilliant, just to make an example I was surprised at how many times I got spotted from some enemy soldier(s) coming from behind and killing me, and the maps are huge. Their pathfinding was really effective I would say. Performance wise, I almost got to the end of the game and there have been indeed a couple of frame drops to the fourties, in the level soon after you get out of the sphere, but I tweaked the game heavily so it's fine.

[@Masood.Hassani]

Great video Lots of memory Useful infos Much obliged

[@ColossalGameplays]

The ammount of tecnology that later on would be used in many games, Crysis it's a pioneer! it's crazy to say that only nowadays i've had the chance to run it on my pc, cuz back then, it was an impossible dream!

[@Dia1Up]

Imo, Crysis is well optimized. Games are designed for the current hardware at the time. Ie: a 1080 can handle 60fps at Max on a modern game. Crysis wasn't. It was pushing real time rendering to the max regardless of hardware. Hence why it obliterated computers at the time, and why there was such significant down grades to Crysis 2. Look at how many real trees were in 1, all mostly moveable even, you don't even see that today. One of my favorite things was watching a rocket explode and ALL the vegetation would move in a bubble it was awesome

[@VeryMelonCB]

Too bad it's not a matter of opinion.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

No. Games are designed to run good on current hardware, but to max them out the future has to come.

[@DeathBringer769]

+HappyBeezerStudios - by Lord_Mogul I maxed out Doom 3 on launch day back in 2004 with my top end PC at the time, running at 1600x1200 res at 75fps... I didn't have to wait for the "future to come" lol ;) So yea, that only applies sometimes. Crysis was definitely one of those examples where you couldn't really MAX it at the time and also get full fps vsync'd nicely with your monitor... but some games you *can* max, even games that were technically impressive at launch like Doom 3. I was maxing HL2 at launch as well, so yea, every game doesn't follow this "rule" but I do get what you're trying to say ;)

[@Dia1Up]

Therealrobokaos There's a very good reason why God Of War has very small view distances, cleverly hidden by rocks, buildings, walls corridors, if the view distance extends farther at some points, it tends to be a cliff or a more or less empty frozen lake. Scenes with lower density. Crysis was more of a tech showcase showing what the engine is capable of. Which was mind blowing back then. My opinion still stands, showing what it can do regardless of hardware. Crysis 2 however they wanted to get running on consoles. Which is why there were significant downgrades, and probably why it was in a city instead of a jungle. An absolutely massive amount fewer polys to render.

[@Dia1Up]

Therealrobokaos because consoles have remained the same for some time while PC video cards move forward.

[@rehanachowdhury6187]

I couldn't believe it was a 2007 game I thought it was a 2012 or 2013 game

[@evanl3803]

Rehana Chowdhury are you Pakistani gamer

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@@evanl3803 lol

[@funrsguysandmore]

Evan L weak

[@gamertriggered4396]

Crysis 3 from 2013 also has better graphics than most of the games now

[@damiancampbell7534]

And it still looks better than a lot of modern games.

[@evol111]

This dialog reminds me of an episode of StarTrek...when they are explaining space and tech stuff.

[@mickeychilds9946]

Well i didn't understand the lauguage you spoke but you pointed out the real cool stuff in the Crysis graphics. It's why I loved the game so much as it had such a wow factor to the environment.

[@boredgunner]

Crysis = great sandbox single player that uses technology to bolster its gameplay (physics enabled environment that doesn't just look pretty but gives you many different ways to kill people) - One of the most epic, strategic PvP shooter game modes ever created with Power Struggle - Fully moddable game with one of the best SDKs to ever be included with a game, supporting simple tweaks to total conversion mods (people have made F.E.A.R.-like games out of it, Lovecraftian existential horror games out of it, MechWarrior mods out of it, etc.) - Fully customizable, moddable dedicated servers, leading to some of the best server side mods created for any game. My server was so epic that some maps had completely different objectives and gameplay (crazy obstacle course type maps, racing maps) - Groundbreaking technology, top tier graphics in EVERY SINGLE VISUAL DEPARTMENT from texture resolution to animations, and also very good sound quality, and it uses this advanced tech to bolster gameplay unlike most of today's games This game really had it all. One of the only shooters to do that.

[@boredgunner]

If by sandbox you mean completely open world, then you are right. Mission progression is completely linear, but each mission itself is a sandbox, since you an go wherever you want whenever you want within each mission.

[@torment4723]

Sandbox is in fact open world. There s little point in going "wherever you want" if there s not a good point other than look around.

[@boredgunner]

There is good reason: you can approach any enemy encampment in any order you want, from whatever direction you want, with whatever weapon and/or vehicle you want. Why are you pretending this doesn't exist in the game or isn't appealing to those with the intellect and attention span to do more than blindly move forward? Also, the term "sandbox" is in fact often used by the industry to describe games like Crysis, Dishonored, and Thief, where you do one mission at a time in linear fashion but each mission is a big sandbox. So you are in fact wrong there as well, you just have a preference for how to use the term which is fine but the industry doesn't adhere to it.

[@miguelpereira9859]

Crysis is what ID Software should have been doing at the time

[@basshead.]

Too bad it's just a typical FPS with great graphics and not an RPG.

[@FVDaudio]

When I see the review and analysis like that, it only remains to ask myself ... So what the hell did programmers and designers have to be able to create, test and play it? What computer system did they have?

[@silasstryder]

They didn't necessarily run it at full capacity. Play testing may have involved several different combinations of some of the max settings or they ignored sub-par frame rate with everything on full blast.

[@danielbeccar269]

Jaja I was thinking the same that time, and the same with Witcher and the supersampling.

[@blueeyednick]

@phillip martin Why it never happened? Specs are getting better. So why?

[@ciekce]

@@blueeyednick because continuous clock speed (and single-core performance) increase like the developers envisioned and designed the engine around just isn't possible, cpu performance expansion is by far mostly with core count now

[@nikolygtx8848]

8800 vs 1080, what its bigger?

[@ReticentIndignation]

Ah this game...the most stunningly beautiful game I've ever played on PC. So much detail! What a blast of a game!

[@EraVulgaris-]

Anyone here after the Remaster announcement?

[@TheTruth-ro2tc]

Im gonna have make some upgrades to my current pc😂

[@josemercado1674]

Yes sir. :-)

[@Nickydo111]

This is the digital foundry video I signed up for, no Xbox or Xbox One comparisons. Not hating on the consoles, I love consoles but this is pure gold. Thank you.

[@MrBillgonzo]

Nick Brown I really like their videos and analysis techniques. I do wish I was seeing more stuff like this

[@LILLO84]

totally agree

[@paul1979uk2000]

I don't mind mixing PC and consoles together, DF is best when it does good comparsons over all platforms and goes deep into how games works on each platform, as well as how well optimised games are for each platform.

[@marcino457]

This could’ve been such a great franchise. Though admittedly 2 and 3 were pretty good games in their own right, they never reached the highs of Crysis and Warhead. The games worked best when set on vast forested areas, with multiple approaches available during every encounter. 3 tried to replicate that but didn’t quite succeed

[@V-Jes]

I would say 2 is overall better as single players go (also helped by players armor not being made out of tin foil) but 1 and warhead easily let's player have more fun.

[@DimitriosChannel]

Dude, great video!

[@simonriddick]

I played through it yesterday. The quarantine has let me play again!. I loaded up a texture mod and it still looks really good. I noticed some frame drops during the explosions scenes when you first meet up with your friendlies at the front lines. Other than that looked like 60fps to 80 steady. I think I have a 1060 not even sure I got it used lol. Either way still a wicked game lots of memories.

[@amharris]

Really in-depth and at a level of technicality in the assessment that so few would carry out.

[@Xyos212]

No game comes close to their foliage rendering, density, and view distance. I don't know how they pulled it off back then but it still looks freaking amazing to this day, AND it's dynamic and has physics!

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Xyos212 ARK is probably one of the closest contenders.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

While the Source Engine still looks nice today (although no competition to more modern engines) the Cryengine in the original crysis is still something devs have to look out for. Who likes getting said that their game looks worse than a 10 year old shooter.

[@gateoflion]

Several games do come close or exceed, like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Even though it's largely a walking simulator; foliage rendering, density and view distance and phenomenal, and overall fidelity does exceed Crysis. In fact it's foliage work is some of the most realistic I've seen. No aliens to shoot tho.

[@Xyos212]

Games come close, but don't forget the level of interaction we had too. You could shoot down trees, they would react as you moved through them, explosions went off nearby, etc. That plus Crysis's natural lighting (no post process color grading) makes it look so damn realistic. Crysis also used a specific Anti Aliasing technique just for foliage, making them look very nice from a distance, like there was real leaf volume there.

[@tim3172]

I remember my completely OP XFX 7950GT Extreme Edition Passive absolutely shitting the bed trying to play this game. It was the first game in 3 years of owning it that really pushed the need to upgrade to a shiny new XFX 9600GT which could play it okay-ish most of the time.

[@socksonfeet8125]

I hadn't realized I'm still using relatively the same cpu, with a newer video card. Its close to the same PC I built 10 years ago to run Crysis and it plays every modern game fine, talk about future proofing lmao. Every game I played since then is basically a console port so there is no need for a better system unless I had to run at larger resolutions. What actually drew me to Crysis was the gameplay(first half of the game before it gets linear), graphics was just a bonus. If only I had a capture card back then I would have made a play through. Good old days!

[@_Alper4458]

They wil not make crysis again. Sad can you imagine crysis in 2018 it would be fantastic.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

That would need 2048 pc to run it.

[@pwnshhhop51]

A Crysis level graphical powerhouse game would put everything else to shame, even Frostbite games.

[@theeraphatsunthornwit6266]

@Diz Zkl thx for the info

[@Sk8foxx]

With the story and way it runs, a movie would look incredible with the right budget and Directors behind it. Not to mention a Crysis 4

[@thedatatreader]

Our current version of Crysis is basically just Star Citizen. If you dig into the development conferences and demos, you'll see that they have the same mantra as Crytek and like Crysis, the story is more or less an excuse to experience the gameplay. (Not a bad story per-se, just not the selling point.)

[@jeromekrammes2031]

This dude dearly loves this game.

[@Sunny-zh6go]

Crysis 1 and warhead were real gem. Not just talking about graphics but everything

[@antonkirilenko3116]

He has a shrine of a disk copy of Crysis. With candles.

[@soniablanche5672]

@@Sunny-zh6go Yeah, the game engine is amazing. I love the fact you can grab almost everything on the ground (chicken, wood sticks, watermelons, barrels, etc) and use them as weapons lol

[@moulanacbz]

I missed CRYSIS so much, I missed the nano suit and its voice. 😢 after 7 years I played all parts nano suit voices are still in my ears. I bought a tv and test the resolution using crysis game.

[@BujakaLaFa]

Still looks so so good.... The amount of effort they put in this game.

[@e2rqey]

Crysis is the reason I made my first real gaming computer. I had an 8800GTS with 640mb of VRAM. I stil get nostalgic and sometimes use my Logitech G15 Keyboard and G5 Mouse. It's also probably the reason I never did anything in school. I would always go home and play WoW LK, Battlefield 2142, Call of Duty 4. Man I feel old. Idc what anyone says Call of Duty 4 was the best call of duty ever made.

[@Alex-wq1hp]

Sean H- COD 4 was and still is my favorite in the series. All of the others games don’t have the same charm for some reason.

[@mixnflix101]

Battlefield 1943 and CoD4 were both legendary games!!

[@solarstrike33]

@@mixnflix101 1943 did not release for PCs, though there was a version planned.

[@Lo0nex_]

cod1, 2 and 4 are all really good yeah, 4 was (still is) especially good with promod.

[@GOOB3000]

I still play CoD4 almost daily. It isn't an opinion that it's the best. It's an absolute fact

[@nejinaji]

To me it's crysis and far cry 2 that just don't seem to age

[@geniusnsm]

And half life 2

[@HistoryandReviews]

GTA V

[@nejinaji]

gta has aged pretty badly those games always do especially in the controls department. Half life 2 has aged but it's aged well. Especially compare to other games of its time

[@BagzAndPresident]

@@nejinaji not true at all

[@zavodszkiabel7919]

Far cry 2....... every far cry game after the 2nd was basically a downgrade with more color..

[@howardmueller1535]

The game that made me build my first pc 😁 a learning experience and a wow experience while playing the game. Best of the series 🔥

[@sushimshah2896]

They should re-release the entire series as a remastered package with updated graphics & shaders, etc just like CoD4:MW so that the meme becomes relevant again

[@AngieYonaga]

I have good news

[@sushimshah2896]

@@AngieYonaga ??

[@AngieYonaga]

@@sushimshah2896 They just announced Crysis remastered

[@sushimshah2896]

@@AngieYonaga Yep, just read that😍 Fuck, I'm so excited to try it on my laptop at 10fps😭 I had just recently downloaded the OG after seeing DF's video. It was actually night-time here when they tweeted it, so I got to know it in the morning.

[@niharsheth1509]

God bless you and you wish is granted

[@pratikmaurya7394]

We need some more crysis in gaming, which doesn't cares if your system can run it or not.

[@pratikmaurya7394]

lordferius you yourself told the reason that why there is no more crysis

[@pratikmaurya7394]

lordferius i also agree with you, but I just want developers to use the full potential to develop a beautiful game like crysis was

[@MrDmadness]

Star citizen .

[@a_LaLi_LuLe_Lo]

lordferius the same way they did it before..?

[@a_LaLi_LuLe_Lo]

Pratik Maurya no it’s because prophets story is officially over. There’s nowhere to go unless they pull a mass effect

[@simstash9889]

I didn't understand most of the stuff this guy was talking about BUT still loved the video! Thanx...

[@laykehicks8413]

Incredible written & voiced presentation.

[@Vicieron]

* sees thumbnail of video * * clicks to see if "can it run on Crysis at full settings" meme is still viable * * reads title * Good. good. My favorite meme is officially not dead. I can safely go back to using it without being considered a loser. : )

[@TheVoiceOfReason]

Not being considered "a loser", by losers (dorks obsessed with videogames), IS NOT something to be proud of.

[@disputeone]

You shouldn't worry so much about what other people think.

[@AFourEyedGeek]

@@TheVoiceOfReason Erm, you are on a KZbin video analysing a ten year old video game. You are one of those video game obsessed losers

[@nikitovitch5113]

FourEyedGeek why u here then ?